all those tax increase and spending cuts expected for next year that fiscal cliff that will wait until after the election, shep. >> shepard: each side is not surprisingly blaming the other for failing to do more. >> that's right. both sides have offered proposals, they are stung. -- stuck. house republicans pin it on democrats. >> it's the u.s. senate that's been stopping everything. we don't know how much comes to fruition but we do know we'll get things through the house when it gets to the senate is where it goes to die. >> harry reid rights in politico that republicans have hued closely to a narrow political strategy. if the president supports it, republicans oppose it. aides say both democrats and republicans are waiting until after the election as neither side sees the political benefit of working out these larger issues until they know who wins. shep? >> shepard: rich edson live in d.c. tonight, thank you. a congressional hearing into the investigation into that fast and furious gun sting will not happen tomorrow as planned. u.s. department of justice inspector general was set t